Note: One thing
that’s very nice about this tool is that it will check disk alignment before
starting, and warn you if the VM you’ve picked for rapid cloning is not disk
aligned correctly (the clones would end up being similarly misaligned).

Image: Example
warning of trying to rapid clone a VM with VMDK files that are not aligned

Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 1: Storage Controller details

- Select the ‘Target Storage Controller’ and click Next
>

Image: Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 1

Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 2: Clone Source

*This step is
skipped since we’ve already selected a VM

Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 3: Clone Destination

- Choose the host or cluster for the new clones and click
Next >

Note: Optionally,
can “Specify the virtual machine folder for the new clones”

Image: Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 3

Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 4: Virtual machine folder

*This step is
skipped unless you tick the “Specify the virtual machine folder for the new
clones” from Step 3

- Specify the details of the virtual machine clones (see
example below) and click Next >

Image: Create Rapid
Clones Wizard - Step 6 Example Specifications

Note i: The options
for broker version are VMware View 4.5/4.6/5.0/5.1, and Citrix XenDesktop
4.0/5.0

Note ii: For the
wizard, clones names can only contain A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and - characters!

Note iii: If you
already have saved customizations in ‘vSphere Client > Home > Management
> Customization Specifications Manager’, and the correct sysprep versions or
similar installed on your vCenter, the ‘Apply customization specification?’
tick box can be checked.